Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-15
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD
HB INVESTIGATES THE MYSTERIES OF
LONDON TOWN.
Hs Wonders ;ai lis Sss-Soms People nom Near
wsyback- His Visit b The House Of COu-
mous-SsuaDr SpoOnS and Chance

Acquaintance
sDo.soi corropoadeacs ne Regisr.
LONDON, May %
When first landed in Washington, d.
g. a. member Of Congress from Way
hack thought / had struck just as big a
town as was ON the footstool, but foreign
travel has learned me good deal in .
mighty short while. I found 1t out before
had been in London fifteen minutes.
This town is bigger than my entire dee
strick and the Deestrick of Columbia to
boot But there's more beauty though, in
two squares of Washington than there is
in the whole of London, and quality Is Q
bean site more valuable to q man Of my
mater than quantity.
The first day after we got here Mandy
and me concluded that the best thing 10 90
was Ia no out 10 the suburbs somewhere
and git up on hill TO git general view Of
the town, so we took a stage and started
ont reckon we must have gone about
dozen or fifteen miles before We decided
that the best thing for Us to do
was to 90 back home and study up the
map. ~ .,
/ have been wondering ever since how
the dickens they ever got such whaling
big town onto such q little island ~ Eng
land is. NssGa
/ find q good many Americans here, and
IL didn't know every voter in my dees-
trick I should say some of the inhabitants
of Wayback was in the lot. I can tell q
man from Wayback as soon as lay my eyes
ON him, and though I hain't seen any
right from headquarters, there's several
from the adiining counties. IL makes one
feel good TO meet them, too, for / have
been right lonesome at times, and 30 has
Mandy.
met the Hon. Bayless Hanna, Of In
diana, the other day (he amt from Way.
back, our United States Minister to the
Argentine Republic, that wouldn't 20 10
the Persian court because the mileage
come out of his salary land / don't blame
him), and we had long chat on the street
corner, and went and took glass Of APP
polinaris water. Bayless Is statesman
that admire. He is q plain man that
knows how to combine statecraft with
harmless pleasure, and good all round
statesman like that u as valuable as he rs
skeerce. That's one of my best pints and
l pride myself on it.
NV colleague in the House. Hon. Perry
Belmont, of New York, Chairman Of the
Foreign Relations Committee, was also in
town when got here. | reckon he was
getting solid with his foreign relations, for
he had been out the night before eating a
meal of yittles with Randolph Churchill,
who ought TO be member Of Congress in
our great and glorious Republic. instid Of
representing o deestrick in the House oil
Commons under throne. Mr.. Belmont
was looking well as usual in his black silk
neck scarf and his grim gaze OF stern re-
serve. Perry always struck me as states
man that was cut out for prime minister
or a bronze statute. never could settle
in my mind just which. Ha
Senator Spooner, OF Wisconsin, was
doing the town up, too, like / was, and
like me, he had his wife along. The Sen
ator had never been so far away from home
before, and never had, and ! think We
was the gladdest two men to meet you ever
saw, Mr.. Editor. He had been looking
around, he said, to find somebody that
spoke American, and he had heard man
down on the Thames embankment talking
and had tackled him. Says the Senator to
him:
"Are you and Americana"
'oThank God, l am" was the answer,
and il reminded me az the Senator told II
that every American feels just that very
way, when he gets lonesome and fellow
citizen happens TO find him, while his eyes
are sore to see the star spangled banner
and his ears are weary waiting to hear the
inspiring strains of Yankee Doodle Dandy.
NV experience has learned me that the
lonesomest cretur on Gods green earth lisa
true patriot on foreign sile-unlcss he is
there at Government expense, and lots Of
times even then.
The Senator was giving me some pints
on the exorbitant and usurious outrages
imposed on him while crossing the ocean,
by the walters and other people on the ship
that brought him over. His fees TO this
enemy that ship company aids and abets
was SIS.
"why," says the Senator, getting hot rs
he thought about it, 81 paid IS TO the
ships doctor for pill"
"But diueus.n What want to tell
your readers about is my visit 10 the House
OF Commons, where the representative.men
Of England do the national legislating rs
we do in Congress. OF course, TO a man
Of my taste and training, that was the
fust place of interest in London, and /
went there in quiet way to see the pro-
ceedings.
The building was familiar 10 me from
the pictures / had saw Of it but it amt
like 30 hondsome as the beauti.
full picture in marble where the American
Congress meets. II is Of sandstone, and
has got more fiouuces and furbelows on 10
il than Mandy's best dress that she wore
to Mr.. Clevelands reception. There's
towers and picnickles, and weather yanes
and statuary, and fancy windows and fiub
dubs till you can't rest 10 looked TO me
a good deal more like an exposition build
ing for fine arts and store goods than q
hall of grave and solemn legislation. Well,
as was saying, ] strolled over that way
one evening they meet at 4 or 5 o'clock
and spoil the night for those outside d.
vertisements 10 dear TO the congressional
heart and started 10, but policeman
headed me of at the door.
Got an order, sir?" he asst me very POI
lite.
mo. Pm a plain American Congress
man." says I, land we don't have none of
your dog-gone orders. Dol look like K.
C. Il. OF anything 81 that sort?'
Peg your pardon, sir; Imean, have You
IN order from the speaker?''
''0f conrse ! haven't I only want 10
step into the gallery and see how the boys
mir doing their work"
'You can't get in, SIR, without 40 or
lar ~ and ~ Iacba fhnra n xuaa a ran